NEW YORK, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)
has called upon government and law enforcement authorities to close
three U.S. mosques that have been established as breeding grounds for
jihad terror.

The call follows the issuance
last week of AFDI's 18-point Platform for Defending Freedom, which
offered practical steps to protect the nation from jihad terror in the
wake of the Boston jihad bombings.

Those 18 points included a call for "immediate investigation into foreign mosque
funding in the West and for new legislation making foreign funding of
mosques in non-Muslim nations illegal," as well as for "surveillance of
mosques and regular inspections of mosques in the U.S. and other
non-Muslim nations to look for pro-violence materials. Any mosque
advocating jihad or any aspects of Sharia that conflict with
Constitutional freedoms and protections should be closed."

AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller
said in a statement: "In accord with those calls for responsible law
enforcement regarding subversive activities in U.S. mosques, we are
asking that government and law enforcement officials launch immediate
investigations into the Islamic Society of Boston, the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque of Fairfax County, Virginia, and the Noor Center of Columbus, Ohio."

Geller emphasized: "These mosques are not unique. There are many
others like them. But they are the tip of the spear. It is time that our
officials demand that they obey American laws, or be held accountable
for not doing so."

The reasons for the calls for closure include:

Islamic Society of Boston (two mosques, one in Cambridge and one in Boston)

Founded by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who served as its first president. He is now in prison for financing al-Qaeda.

Aafia Siddiqui attended this mosque. She is now serving an
86-year-sentence for plotting a jihad attack in New York City, and
firing at military officers and FBI agents when under arrest.

Tarek Mehanna attended this mosque. He is now serving 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al-Qaeda.

Ahmad Abousamra attended this mosque. He was Mehanna's co-conspirator. He fled to Syria and is wanted by the FBI.

Jamal Badawi of Canada was a former trustee of the Islamic Society
of Boston Trust. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007
Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial.

Yusuf al Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood
spiritual leader who has praised Hitler and called on Muslims to finish
his work, was a mosque trustee and has addressed congregants via
recorded video message to raise money for the Boston mosque.

Yasir Qadhi, who lectured at the Boston mosque in April 2009, has
advocated replacing U.S. democracy with Islamic rule and called
Christians "filthy" polytheists whose "life and prosperity … holds no
value in the state of Jihad."

Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, a member of the mosque's
Executive Committee, was convicted in November 2007 of contempt and
obstruction of justice for refusing to testify regarding Hamas, and
received an eleven-year prison sentence.

Noor Mosque, Columbus, Ohio

The leader of the mosque, Dr. Hany Saqr, was previously an imam for
another area mosque which at that time was the base of operations for
the largest known Al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. since 9/11, including
convicted jihadists Iyman Faris, Nuradin Abdi, and Christopher Paul.
Saqr is one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America.

Dr. Salah Sultan was the mosque's unofficial scholar in residence. A
protégé of Qaradawi, Sultan is now in the Middle East and has appeared
on Egyptian television approvingly quoting the genocidal hadith about
how the end times will not come until Muslims kill Jews, and previously
appeared at events in support of Hamas and Qaradawi.

The Noor Center has been directly linked to the Somali Muslims who
have gone from the U.S. back to Somali for jihad terror training.

Siraj Wahhaj, a friend of the Blind Sheikh and a potential
unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has
spoken at the Noor Mosque.

Mosque members threatened the life of Rifqa Bary, a teenage girl who left Islam for Christianity.

AFDI stands for:

The freedom of speech – as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of
"blasphemy" and "slander," which are used effectively to quash honest
discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;

The freedom of conscience – as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for apostasy;

The equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to
Sharia's institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.

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The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)
The American Freedom Defense Initiative is a new organization launched by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Our objective is to go on the offensive when legal, academic, legislative, cultural, sociological, and political actions are taken to dismantle our basic freedoms and values.